Game apparatus.



L. W. DAVIS.

GAME APPARATUS APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1914.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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LEONARD W. DAVIS, OF EEBKIMER, NEW YGRITZ, ASSIGNOR TO LULU DAVIS, F

\ HEBKIMEB, NEW 'YUBK.

. GAME arranarns.

Application filed January l5, 1914. Serial No. 812,132.

To all cohom it may concern Be it known that I, LEONARD, l/V. Davis, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Herkimer, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Game ripparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to a game apparatus,

andI declare the following .to be a full, concise and accurate description thereof, sniiicient to enable anyone skilled in the art to which it appertains to make, use and play the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the specification.

Theobject of the invention is to provide a" game apparatus that will be instructive, as well as entertaining. The game will be found to be an excellent mental exercise in figures and a great aid to those persons who desire to become expert accountants or to those who desire to master the rapid mental calculation of figures. The game is designed to represent tiinein its various divisions and is played on a boardmade for the purpose. These objects are attained. by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the game; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line, 2--2of Fig. 1:; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of a block or cube employed; Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of a member employed. 1 r j i Referring moreparticularly to the draw ings, the game comprises a board 15, which may be made of wood or other suitable material, having marked thereon a circle 20. Between the circle 20 and the outer edge 21 of the basin 22 which is located in the center ofthe board there are marked off four spaces 23, 24, 25, and 26, each representing one ofthe four seasons of the year and limited laterally by the heavy dark diagonal lines, connecting the circles 50 and 21. To more clearly define the spaces 23, 24, 25, and 26 from each other, any

stance, the spa e 23,. representing pri g,

the first season of the year might be colored green, the space 24, representing sumsenting fall, colored gray, and the space 26, representing winter, colored white. Furthermore, each of thespaces 23, 24, 25, and 2G is divided into 13 smaller spaces or weeks, which are numberedfrom -1 to 13 inclusive. There is formed in the center of the larger or season spaces 23, 24, 25, and 26, a small basin 30 adapted for the reception of the four pegs 31 for insertion at the proper intervals to be hereinafter eX- plained in the holes 41 in the board 15 to in dicatethe number of times the play has gone around the board. -The basin 22 is also adapted for the reception of other of the pegs 31 for insertion in the holes to indicate the number of points scored by the individualplayer. The basins 22 and 30 are constructed by sinking suitable shaped de. pressions in the board 15, which depressions are lined with aluminum 32.

The rules and m anner of playing the game are as follows: Each of the four seasons 23, 24, 25 and 26 is assigned to a player, who is provided with three of the men 33, which are so disposed on the spaces numbered 1 to 13, in the respective season spaces 23, 24, 25 and 26, that when all the twelve men 33 are placed on the board 15, there will be one number numerically that will not be covered. This number that is not covered, or as I choose to term it, the vacant number, is denoted by the block or cube 34, which has the word Indicator marked on each of its six sides. It will be observed that the numbers 1 to 13 are marked in the corners of their respective spaces, whereby they may be readily seen even when the men 33 are disposed thereon. The object of the game is to be the first person to secure thirteen pegs, each representing seven days, which pegs are taken from the center basin 22, as they are won and disposed in the holes 40 to the right of the player. The first player may games the next person to the left becomes the first player. Furthermore, when start ing the game, the first player takes one of the pegs 31 contained in the small basin 30 in the season space 23 and places the same in the first of the holes 41 immediately in front of his place toindioate that the play mer, colored yellow,- the space 25, repre-.

be chosen by the players, but in successivev is 011 the first turn around the board. Assuming that the player assigned to the spring season space 23 is the-first'to play, he has the privilege of moving anyone of his three men 33 onto the vacant space, or 7, in this instance. He will, therefore, so move, if possible, that the sum of the'numbers covered by his men 33, after he has moved, will equal 7 or a multiple of seven, for the player is awarded one peg for every sum that is seven or a multiple thereof. In

the'illustration shown in the Fig. 1, the

player of the spring season 23, would be unable to so move anyone of his men 33 upon the vacant number seven that the sum of the numbers covered by his men 33 after he had moved would equal seven or a multiple thereof. The player would try, therefore, to so move as to preventhis opponent to the left of him from making seven or a multiple thereof. Assuming further that the player of the spring season 23 moves the man 33 now on space 2 to the space of the vacant number 7, for he is obliged to move one man and only one at a time, then the vacant number for the player of the summer season 1 space 24-, would be 2, which number would be indicated by disposing the block 3 1 thereon. The player of the season 24now moves, if possible, that one of his three men 33 onto the space of, the vacant number or 2,

which Will give him seven or a multiple thereof. He, too, in this instance, is unable to so move that the sum of the numbers covered by his men 33, after he has moved,

will equal seven or a multiple thereof. This player, therefore, would try to so move that his opponent to the left of him will be unable to make 7 or a multiple thereof. Assuming that the player of the summer season space 24:, moves the man 33 now on 12 to the space of the vacant number 2. The vacant number becomes 12, which will be indicated by the block 3 1-. The third player, or the player of the fall season 25 then plays thatone of his three men 33 onto the vacant number 12, that willgive him, if possible, the sum of seven or multiple thereof. He, too, in this instance, will be unable to make the required sum tosecure one or more pegs. Assuming that the third player, moves the man 33 on 9 to the space of the vacant number 12. The vacant number is now 9, which is indicated by disposing the block 34 onto that space in the fourth or winter season 26. The fourth player, or player of the winter 1 season, will now move the man 33 on 6 to 9,

the vacant number, in order to secure the sum, twenty-one, namely three sevens, which represent twenty-one days, that being the greatest multiple of seven, possible, in this instance. The player, therefore, takes three pegs-31 out of the center basin 22 and disthe he takes the second one of the four pegs 31 contained in the'small basin 30 in his season space 23, and places the same 1n the second of the four holes 41 immediately in front of,

the spring season space 23, to indicate that the play is on the second turn around the board. The playing continues as before, the number on the space I from which the last player moves his man 33 becoming, in each instance, the vacant number on which the next player to the left must play. The playing now continues under these .rules until fourth-time around theboard, which is link termedl eap Year During the leap year turn, the first playerinust use the extra day of that year, if he. can move in such a manner, that the sum of the numbers covered by his men 33, will equal 8, 15, 22, 29 or 36, or 1 plus any possible multipleof seven, unless the playershould beable so to move as to make seven or its multiple, in which event he may. exerclse the optlon- In either case.

the player is awarded one peg for each seven plus one, or each seven,in accordancewith the option exercised,"so made. If the extra day is not thus used by the first player, the

privilege passes on to the second, who'may use it under the same conditions. Ifnot used by the second, it passes to the'third, and if not "used by the third, the privilege passes to the fourth player, who-lis oblige'd to use the extra day in order'to count; If

the fourth player can not use. the extra day,

andcan move so as to make seven or its multiple, he must so move without counting.

The playing continues until one of; the

players has made the thirteen pegs, without again"consideringleap year inthat game.

three hundred sixty-four days andthereare three hundred sixty-five days, in a calendar y-ear,:- the player to make the last count 111 a game is governedby'the same rules prescribed above for the fourth player in leap year. However, it is not necessary that any oftheplayers make just the exact number of pegs required to finish the game. lfhe needs one peg only, but can make more than one, hemay use the one peg and thereby win the game.

The players may play with individual scores, orthey may play'as partners, in

which event, the opposite players would be so considered. In this, instance, 'when one player has made, the required number of pegs, thirteen, he continues playing, but throws hls count to'his *partner. The two players first making twenty-six pegs areto' be considered the winnersof the game.-

The game may begplayed by-two persons under the same conditions as played by four persons, the only difference being that each of the two persons plays the opposite season spaces and as he finishes each play, he turns the board one quarter way around to bring the next space opposite his opponent.

There is a sufiicient number of the pegs 31,

fifty-two in all, disposed in the basin 22 at the beginning of the game for use by the players in keeping count of their respective scores. The four; other pegs 31, which are employed to keep track of the number of times the playhas gone around the board are kept in the basins and are passed to the player at the left at the beginning of each successive game.

The game is called Zeit from the German word time because of its proximity thereto, to wit: the game combined represents years (the four larger spaces or divisions 23, 24, 25, and 26, represent the four seasons, the twelve men 33, represent the twelve calendar months, the fifty-two pegs disposed in the center basin 22 at the beginning of the game, for use in keeping track of the individual scores, each represent seven days or a total number of three hundred sixty-four days for each year with one day added to make 365 days and one extra day for leap year, and the smaller spaces or thirteen weeks into which each seasonspace is divided represent the fifty-two weeks in each year.

Having thus described my invention what Copies of this patent may be obtained for figure on said board, said figure comprising an annular space, said annular space being divided into quarters, said quarters being subdivided into thirteen smaller spaces, numbers marked in said spaces, and men for moving about on said spaces, whereby to count seven or a multiple thereof.

In a game apparatus, a board, basins in aid board for holding pegs, aluminum lining for said basins, and a given figure on said board, said figure being divided into it'our spaces, said spaces being further subdivided into smaller spaces, and numbers on said smaller spaces, whereby the combination of said numbers will give the sum of sevenor a multiple thereof.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. LEONARD W. DAVIS. lVitnesses SAMUEL SLoAN, T. L. VVILDER.

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